<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Just to throw in my 2¢: I've become so fed up with unreliable consumer routers, regardless of running original firmware, ddwrt, openwrt, etc., that I ended up just buying a low-power pc with dual-nics, installing ipfire, and calling it a day. I still have a consumer router, but it functions as a WAP only, with whatever OEM firmware it shipped with.<br><br></div>The device I purchased (also needs ram and storage, which I already had): <a href="http://www.dx.com/p/minix-intel-d2550-cpu-mini-hd-pc-w-hdmi-vga-black-us-plug-100-240v-228560">http://www.dx.com/p/minix-intel-d2550-cpu-mini-hd-pc-w-hdmi-vga-black-us-plug-100-240v-228560</a><br><br></div>IPFire: <a href="http://www.ipfire.org/">http://www.ipfire.org/</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aklists@mixdown.ca" target="_blank">aklists@mixdown.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> On Jun 18, 2015, at 11:55 AM, CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Linksys WRT1900ac ($250)<br>
> TP-Link WDR4300 ($80)<br>
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</span>I’ve got the WRT1900AC. It’s pretty badass looking, although that wasn’t why I bought it.<br>
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Simultaneous dual channel, external antennas, USB and eSATA ports. This thing pretty much has it all, and that’s with the stock firmware. It’s been pretty solid in the last 3ish months or so that I’ve had it. The USB sharing works reasonably well, although it seems to have an issue with OSX Yosemite. 10.9 works, 10.10 doesn’t, but Linksys is actually working with me to try to resolve it which is great news.<br>
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-A.<br>
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